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Windshield. erin mclaughlin is live following the investigation here. erin, what have you learned this morning? >> reporter: hi, christi. well, investigatorsing trying to solve the mystery of why amtrak 188 crashed. they're now looking at the possibility that the train may have been struck by some sort of project style. yesterday in a press conference, a member of the ntsb pointed to two key new pieces of evidence. information from the assistant conductor of amtrak 188. she says that prior to the crash, she heard a radio transmission between the amtrak dispatcher and the engineer of a nearby s...

Far from it. this person had a lot of financial information. so if we can use that to drive up some of their financial capabilities, that's a great thing, but it won't win the war. >> okay. thank you so much for your insights. we're watching several new developments in the investigation of tuesday's fatal amtrak derailment. in fact the ntsb spoke with the train's engineer and the ntsb said brandon bostian was cooperative but could not remember anything of the accident. an assistant conductor told the ntsb says she heard the engineer say a projectile may have hit the train's wind shield. part...

In part with the help of the fbi. this line of inquiry is based on an interview that they conducted today, with an assistant conductor who was working on the train and she apparently told investigators that she overheard a radio conversation between her engineer on her amtrak train and the engineer on a nearby septa train, a pennsylvania regional commuter train. there had been some media reports that a septa train nearby had had its windshield broken, just before the amtrak train derailed. and that it had been described as an unrelated incident. had been described as an unrelated incident, but...

Late. >> he did apparently have some technical problems on the route down to washington. >> did he report that it was stressful that he was frazled? >> i have no knowledge of his being frazzled as a result of him being a little late. we will go right here. >> is there any evidence on the train to show a projectile or anything like that? and just to clarify, the assistant conductor, when she overheard somebody she believed to be the engineer saying that someone may have thrown something at his train did she believe it was at that moment he was speaking or did she believe it was prior to that? >...

Cause of the crash. adding that the engineer, william rockefeller, who was slightly injured, is traumatized as well over the derailment and that the assistant conductor suffered eye injuries and a broken collarbone and the other crew members are said to be, quote, banged up but okay. crews have been working through the day with heavy equipment and cranes to get the toppled rail cars into an up right position so they can be moved out of here so repair work to the rail line can take place. investigators, of course, looking at the black boxes, the speed of the train as it went into a tight turn n...